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Cnns camilla vernal joins me from uvalde, texas. this is interesting. what is the chief saying? >> reporter: yeah, jim, this is very interesting and the chief is saying that not only did he not consider himself to be the incident commander that day, but he also said he assumed someone else had taken on that role. he said he believed he was taking on the role of firsthand responder a front line responder. he told the tribune that he did not issue any orders that day, and yet the tribune is also r...

Campus and police radios outside of the school. joining me now from uvaldes antonia hilton. crucial new details there as the investigation is unfolding. what are we learning about why the officers are still sort of laid in entering the classroom? >> i, alex. these new details really give us important insight into why there was so much chaos on the ground that day, and why it took upwards of an hour for them to actually get confronted with the gunman. what really stood out to me, particularly fro...

Give any instruction that police should not attempt to breach the building. as far as instructions go, he did, though, based on this tribune article did mention officers should try to rescue people through those windows elsewhere, and then significantly, we learned he did not have his radio on him meaning he was not aware of any 911 calls and that he told the tribune no one relayed that information to him. his attorney added that even if he had his radios he would have had them turned off becaus...

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Assumed control of the scene of the shooting even though the texas department of safety previously said pedro pete arredondo was serving as incident commander. he did not hold police back from breaching the building. cnn has reached out to arredondo, and the public department of safety. omar jimenez joins us now. he said he never ordered people to hold back. he never quite said he ordered anyone to go in. i just wonder what we know now with this latest iteration of the story? >> yeah, jim, this ...

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Central question at the heart of what is now multiple overlapping investigations. what took so long? well, arredondo told the tribune that some of the shooters bullets were piercing walls, the classroom door, injured officers, that they started breaking windows and evacuating other children and teachers. but also that the lockdown measures at the school worked against them, he told the tribune, mainly because it was hard to pinpoint the gunmans location because the classroom lights are off, as i...

But not confirmed by the nbc news. the times reporting investigators have determined more than a dozen children in two classrooms were still alive. during the one hour and 17 minutes it took to finally end the standoff. meanwhile the chief breaking his silence over, telling the texas tribune, he ran towards the danger, armed with his glock service pistol, assuming he might die because he had no body armor. the 29 year police veteran unsure where the gunman was told a reporter he left not one but...

Hit adjacent walls and they started breaking windows and evacuating teachers elsewhere in the school and lockdown measures were working against them that all of the lights in the classrooms, which made it difficult to pinpoint the gunmans exact location and the door was reinforced with a steel jamb designed to keep outside attackers from getting in and preventing them from immediately kicking the door in and confronting this particular shooter and he also told the tribune as you mentioned, he ne...